Word: architects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should rule Britannia? Suave Sir Anthony Eden, 57, ensconced at last in No. 10 Downing Street after faithful years in the shade of the giant Churchill? Or Clement Attlee, 72, the plain and comfortable architect of the postwar Welfare State? The Conservatives, heirs to Pitt and Disraeli and Churchill, scions of the best schools and families, trustees of the government for the past 3½ years? Or ' the Laborites, offspring of the coalpits, workshops and the London School of Economics...
...took time out for a step that she had overlooked in her busy professional life. She married Texas-born Architect Irving Drought Harris, and started making a home for him and his two children by his earlier marriage (to the late Jean Ferris, granddaughter of California's Sugar King Glaus Spreckels). Designer McCardell did not try to change the tastes of her new husband. Their eleven-room Manhattan apartment is decorated with masculine hunt prints and heavy mahogany furniture...
...never before had a special prayer room. Three years ago Oklahoma Senator A. S. "Mike" Monroney. an Episcopalian, and Arkansas Representative Brooks Hays, a Baptist, introduced concurrent resolutions to set aside a place where legislators could pray or meditate without distraction.* After Congress finally approved last year, Capitol Architect J. George Stewart selected a small (17 ft. by 18 ft.) room just off the rotunda. Former occupants: the Republican whip, the Speaker of the House...
...Chicago's lakeside Gold Coast last week, builders broke ground for a pair of "glass cities." Designed by Modernist Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the project consists of two 29-story skyscrapers on one site, four 28-story structures about a mile away. The six buildings, clad in aluminum and tinted glass, will have 1,283 apartments, offer such luxury features as airconditioning, soundproof walls, double-oven kitchen ranges, and valet service. Rentals will range from $100 (for one room, dressing room, kitchenette and bath) to $700 (for a twelve-room apartment). To be built in 18 months...
Died. Dr. Ivan Subasich, 63, wartime (1944-45) Premier of King Peter's Yugoslav government in exile and chief architect of the coalition government of Peter's Royalists and Marshal Tito's Partisans; in Zagreb. An early supporter of Tito, Subasich negotiated the agreement that eliminated Allied support of anti-Communist General Draja Mihailovich and paved the way to Tito's rise to power. In 1945 he served as Tito's Foreign Minister, went to Moscow to sign a 20-year treaty with the Soviet Union, but broke with the government six months later...